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Its story

In the celestial River, Eridanus, flows an orange type-K star 384 light-years away. Its light departed in the seventeenth century, when Newton was meditating on a falling apple at Woolsthorpe and the idea of universal gravitation was born beneath an apple tree. Cooler than the Sun yet more luminous, its copper tone glides along the stellar waters —a serene glow suspended in the river of the sky.